Word History

Lopez asked me to go on a treasure hunt, and I agreed to play. The only bad thing is that I hadn’t yet found today’s fossils, so there were a number of buried items around and most of them weren’t treasure. 😛 But still, it only took me about two and a half minutes to find the treasure. It was near the well, south of the arches.

I found treasure!

I took it back to Lopez, and he gave me the treasure: a school jacket. Oh joy.

I forgot to mention this when I first noticed earlier in the week, but Nook’s Cranny now sells the items you could previously get from Redd at the fireworks festival, such as balloons and sparklers. Just check out the cabinet, and there should be one item each day. Unfortunately, you can’t buy them in bulk. But I’m really glad to see them sold in the shop, because fireworks and balloons are fun year-round!

I was happy to see Gullivarrr on the beach today. I found his communicator for him (on my very first dive of the day), and he’ll be sending me a pirate-y reward in the mail tomorrow.

Gullivarrr: S-such a storm... This is it, mateys! We're headed for Davy Jones's shoe cubby! Zzz...

As you can see in that screenshot, I also had some star fragments on the beach. I gathered up eight of them in total.

Agent S surprised me with a long rant about the history of the word “sentimental.” It was…awkward.

Agent S: It's from 1749, which sounds like a low score, not a year--but they don't let me make the calendars! Anyhoo...
Agent S: 'Sentement' is the French spelling from the 1400s! And THAT'S from the Latin 'senti,' aka feel, B-T-dubs.
Please stop.

Most of my play time today was spent working on my new area. I made a new design, I made my cliff larger, I extended the path, and I added more items. It’s essentially done now. I might reveal it tomorrow, but I’m not 100% sure yet. If it’s not tomorrow, it’ll be Sunday.